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| JUL 12, 2007 | ||
Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto Rios, is living under a false identity in Cuba. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sadistic enemy. (read review) |
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| JUL 11, 2007 | ||
When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, rookie Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue connecting the two cases to First Date, a popular online dating service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking homicide detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help. (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUL 10, 2007 | ||
"The Tenderness of Wolves stood out from a very strong shortlist. We felt enveloped by the snowy landscape and gripped by the beautiful writing and effortless story-telling. It is a story of love, suspense and beauty. We couldn't put it down."-- Costa Award Committee (formerly Whitbread Award) (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUL 9, 2007 | ||
Obsession becomes delight as the reader is absorbed into three tales where identities flicker and shift within borders as wide as the mind. (read review) |
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| JUL 7, 2007 | ||
Third and final book in the Chronicles of Chaos about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who discover that they are not human. (read review all three books in the trilogy) |
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| JUL 5, 2007 | ||
Many years before Anatoly Sukhanov abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. (read review) |
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| JUL 4, 2007 | ||
The prolific New York Times best selling humor author kicks off a rousing new mystery series set in the rarefied air of the Rockies - where maverick local sheriff Bo Tully has his hands full trying to ferret out a murderer among the colorful denizens of Blight County. (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUL 2, 2007 | ||
The portrait of an ordinary man who accomplishes nothing extraordinary. A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. At center of this powerful novel is the common experience that terrifies us all. (read reviewand excerpt) |
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| JUL 1, 2007 | ||
"This first of a new series starring Darby McCormick, is a fast paced and terrific book that just can’t be put down. The book starts with a teenage Darby but mostly takes place with the adult Darby who is a crime scene investigator for the Boston, Massachusetts police department Crime Lab..." (read review) |
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| JUN 30, 2007 | ||
In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television newsmagazine The Hour, deserves pride of place. A grand reinvention of the Dracula epic for the 21st century. (read review) |
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| JUN 28, 2007 | ||
"The Japanese describe their own culture by saying, "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down," and that aphorism forms the underpinning of this consummately Japanese novel..." A psychological investigation into the female psyche and a classic work of noir fiction. (read review) |
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| JUN 27, 2007 | ||
Japanese writer Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children. (read review) |
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| JUN 26, 2007 | ||
For the newly-freed black residents of Colfax, Louisiana, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property-and at last control their own lives. Sam Tademy saw a chance to start a school for his children and neighbors. His friend Israel Smith was determined to start a community business and gain economic freedom. But in the space of a day, marauding whites would "take back" Colfax in one of the deadliest cases of racial violence in the South. (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUN 25, 2007 | ||
Once again set in Afghanistan, Hosseini's second novel twists and turns its way through the turmoil and chaos that ensued following the fall of the monarchy in 1973, but focuses mainly on the lives of two women, thrown together by fate... (read review) |
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| JUN 24, 2007 | ||
With his unfailing charm, Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff, and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows, and readers are treated to a colorful parade of the zoo’s unusual animal inhabitants. (read review)
The sequel to A Zoo in My Luggage, this is the story of how Durrell and his wife’s zoo-building efforts at England’s Jersey Zoo led them and a team of helpers on an eight- month safari in Argentina to look for South American specimens. Through windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in Argentina, from ocelots to penguins, fur seals to parrots, Durrell captures the landscape and its inhabitants with his signature charm and humor. (read review) |
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| JUN 22, 2007 | ||
Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits."
Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants
working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to |
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TANGO FOR A TORTURER 
from 2 reviews
DEAD CONNECTION 
from 3 reviews
THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES 
from 3 reviews
FACING THE BRIDGE 
TITANS OF CHAOS 
THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV 
THE BLIGHT WAY 
EVERYMAN 
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THE MISSING 
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GROTESQUE 
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THE WHISPERING LAND 
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